alexander this mayon of the man himself is long gone the institute that bears his name was and still is the heart of artificial food technology and russia because ideas were so important for russian science that here at the nist mayon of institute for organic elements compounds they've turned his office space into a museum he started his academic career in the organic chemistry department put as the years went by he focused more and more on the future of food he formed a dedicated team of scientists all of which put their work and lives into solving some of the most vexing problems. correctly pointed out at that time chemistry was sufficiently developed to such a point it could be used to address the question of producing artificial foods and even synthetic foods in the future. in terms of artificial food production he and his team did all the heavy scientific lifting finding a way to separate amino acid strands. thanks to their work the institute of artificial food led the field in terms of revolutionary production. one of their most successful inventions was a nutritious marmalade s